Maybe it's just me and my tastes since few others have mentioned it but I really liked the X-Files parady episode. Favorite moments:
Mulder show's his FBI badge and the photo is him layed out on his side in a speedo.
"His jiggling, it's almost hipnotic"
"Yes, it's like a lava lamp"
It had lots of in-jokes and clever references for the X-File fans and it never ceases to amuse me. Am I the only one?
As for the worste...
I *hate* the episodes transitioning Lisa to the local liberal hippie type. Lisa becomes a buddist, Lisa becomes and evironmentalist wacko, Lisa brings down the evil military and/or corporation yet again, lisa goes to college to listen to a poety reading... It's just pandering to high schoolers/college students who would find that appealing. But it doesn't work because it isn't funny. But if you want the worst episode ever...
It was that one clip show highlighting all the musical numbers from the show. The inbetween clips material was just awful. And musicals weren't even that good. I do hate the lisa-as-a-hippie episodes (they're all bad) but the musical numbers clip show has to be the absolute worst episode. Didn't see anyone mention that one either...
My favorite: When Moe serves up a beer and says "Nothing like a depressant to chase away the blues"
Or possibly:
Comic Book Guy: "Tell me, how do you feel about 41 year old virgins who still live with their parents?"
Nerdy woman: "Comb the pop-tart out of your beard and you got yourself a deal..."
Comic Book Guy: "Don't try and change me baby"
Some others:
Chief Wiggum: "That's what the all say. They all say 'doh'."
Stephen Hawking: "Everybody acts immature"
(someone else): "even you?"
Stephen Hawking: "No, not me, never"
Nice to know a few other people out there obsess over this as much (or more) as I do.
Actually XP is 100% DOS-free as far as required to load and work. Me on the other hand simply has the reboot-in-msdos-mode option disabled. It can be re-enabled if so desired. I can't think of any reason for this. Either make a boot disk for your DOS adventures or use start/run to run 'command'. I actually have little experience with the innards of Me (as you can tell from my chosen knick name I have a different favorite OS).
This is driving me nuts. WINDOWS XP IS BASED ON THE NT KERNAL!! Windows 2000 is NT 5.0, XP is Windows NT 5.1! Got it?! The author is so STUPID! It uses NTFS, it has the 'nt boot loader', it has a file called 'ntloader' in the system directory (or the root). And if that's not enough evidence just look at it. IT'S WINDOWS 2000 WITH A COUPLE CHANGES HERE THERE. Damn ignorant people. It's not like it's a big secret. XP is *NOT* based in any way shape or form on MS-DOS or any other DOS. It is totally and completely a derivative of NT. Why doesn't anyone know this? Not trying to be inflammatory, this just drives me crazy.
The fourth prediction, about customizing primetime, won't come true. Or at least will be about as common as electric cars are now (the exception versus the rule). The hollywood people have been trying to put rental places like blockbuster out of business since they're inception. I'm telling you this isn't going to prevelent any time soon. As for devices that store shows and movies on a hard drive that won't be very common either. People still feel the need to archive every episode of their favorite shows on some sort of media for easy storage. Not to mention the always-resourceful pirates trying to get all these things for free. Remember that short-lived version of DVD called divx (not the encoding scheme)? You bought the movie and could only watch it a few times, or a for a few days or something like that. Never took off.
Cable boxes won't change very quickly. Even the new digital box I have seems rather badly made and old technology, and it's new. I expect it will have changed very little between now and 2012. It will of course still be "just around the corner". This is because there's little to motivation to improve the boxes. No competition == no innovation. Unless the cable industry is reformed in some manner to rectify this.
Also free TV isn't going anywhere. There will always be people who refuse to pay the local 'evil' mega-corp a fee just to watch the latest sitcom.
I would like to have seen some predictions of the security concerns that went into all this new Internet-related technology. Will hackers be able to get data via a security hole in my MS washing machine? Will houses come equiped with a firewall? What about incompatibilities? What if MS controls the protocol to the washer/dryer while oracle runs the microwave/toaster racket? Will I have to update everything like all the stupid clocks I have to reset at daylight savings time?
One detail he forgot to take into account but I'm sure will be relavent: by 2012 there will be a lot of baby boomers in their late 50s/60s/70s, and they'll all be living a really really long time. Will this adversly affect the rest of us? I would say yes.
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Mulder show's his FBI badge and the photo is him layed out on his side in a speedo.
"His jiggling, it's almost hipnotic"
"Yes, it's like a lava lamp"
It had lots of in-jokes and clever references for the X-File fans and it never ceases to amuse me. Am I the only one?
As for the worste...
I *hate* the episodes transitioning Lisa to the local liberal hippie type. Lisa becomes a buddist, Lisa becomes and evironmentalist wacko, Lisa brings down the evil military and/or corporation yet again, lisa goes to college to listen to a poety reading... It's just pandering to high schoolers/college students who would find that appealing. But it doesn't work because it isn't funny. But if you want the worst episode ever...
It was that one clip show highlighting all the musical numbers from the show. The inbetween clips material was just awful. And musicals weren't even that good. I do hate the lisa-as-a-hippie episodes (they're all bad) but the musical numbers clip show has to be the absolute worst episode. Didn't see anyone mention that one either...
Or possibly:
Comic Book Guy: "Tell me, how do you feel about 41 year old virgins who still live with their parents?"
Nerdy woman: "Comb the pop-tart out of your beard and you got yourself a deal..."
Comic Book Guy: "Don't try and change me baby"
Some others:
Chief Wiggum: "That's what the all say. They all say 'doh'."
Stephen Hawking: "Everybody acts immature"
(someone else): "even you?"
Stephen Hawking: "No, not me, never"
Nice to know a few other people out there obsess over this as much (or more) as I do.
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This is driving me nuts. WINDOWS XP IS BASED ON THE NT KERNAL!! Windows 2000 is NT 5.0, XP is Windows NT 5.1! Got it?! The author is so STUPID! It uses NTFS, it has the 'nt boot loader', it has a file called 'ntloader' in the system directory (or the root). And if that's not enough evidence just look at it. IT'S WINDOWS 2000 WITH A COUPLE CHANGES HERE THERE. Damn ignorant people. It's not like it's a big secret. XP is *NOT* based in any way shape or form on MS-DOS or any other DOS. It is totally and completely a derivative of NT. Why doesn't anyone know this? Not trying to be inflammatory, this just drives me crazy.
The fourth prediction, about customizing primetime, won't come true. Or at least will be about as common as electric cars are now (the exception versus the rule). The hollywood people have been trying to put rental places like blockbuster out of business since they're inception. I'm telling you this isn't going to prevelent any time soon. As for devices that store shows and movies on a hard drive that won't be very common either. People still feel the need to archive every episode of their favorite shows on some sort of media for easy storage. Not to mention the always-resourceful pirates trying to get all these things for free. Remember that short-lived version of DVD called divx (not the encoding scheme)? You bought the movie and could only watch it a few times, or a for a few days or something like that. Never took off. Cable boxes won't change very quickly. Even the new digital box I have seems rather badly made and old technology, and it's new. I expect it will have changed very little between now and 2012. It will of course still be "just around the corner". This is because there's little to motivation to improve the boxes. No competition == no innovation. Unless the cable industry is reformed in some manner to rectify this. Also free TV isn't going anywhere. There will always be people who refuse to pay the local 'evil' mega-corp a fee just to watch the latest sitcom. I would like to have seen some predictions of the security concerns that went into all this new Internet-related technology. Will hackers be able to get data via a security hole in my MS washing machine? Will houses come equiped with a firewall? What about incompatibilities? What if MS controls the protocol to the washer/dryer while oracle runs the microwave/toaster racket? Will I have to update everything like all the stupid clocks I have to reset at daylight savings time? One detail he forgot to take into account but I'm sure will be relavent: by 2012 there will be a lot of baby boomers in their late 50s/60s/70s, and they'll all be living a really really long time. Will this adversly affect the rest of us? I would say yes.